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A satellite view of Alderney, the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA via Wikimedia Commons.

UK government reviewing number of deaths at Nazi camps on British soil

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The British government announced a landmark review last week into Nazi camp deaths on the island of Alderney, which the Germans occupied between 1940 and 1945. Officially, 389 marked graves have been found, but some estimates...
Art collage of the Manhattan Project. led by J. Robert Oppenheimer. Credit: Lia Koltyrina/Shutterstock

Nuclear story ‘not over,’ says author of book behind ‘Oppenheimer’ film

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Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Oppenheimer,” now in theaters, explores the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer—the so-called “father” of the atomic bomb and one of history’s most famous and controversial Jews. One of the authors of the...
Isar River north of Munich, Germany. Credit: Florian Schütz via Wikimedia Commons.

Discovered: Ruins of Munich synagogue destroyed by the Nazis

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Construction workers have uncovered stones in the Isar River from a Jewish temple obliterated in Germany just before World War II. In June of 1938, Munich’s main synagogue was demolished following an order from Adolf Hitler. The...
Terezija Gras (left) and Sara Lustig, co-chairs of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Credit: Courtesy.

Antisemitism ‘working definition’ not a ‘work in progress,” new IHRA co-presidents say

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The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is in the news a good deal these days. The intergovernmental organization is best known for its working definition of antisemitism, which many nations and institutions have adopted. Pro-Israel supporters...
Camilla Maas of Rochester, N.Y., checks medical supplies on an Israel Defense Forces base as part of Sar-El, or the “Volunteers for Israel” program. Credit: Courtesy.

A 92-year-old makes military bases her first stop in Israel … 16 times

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Camilla Maas makes it clear that she doesn’t speak for Israelis. She doesn’t speak for American or international Jewry. The nonagenarian states plainly that she speaks for herself. And for Sar-El, which partners in the United...
Remembrance Day, the Netherlands. Source: Facebook/Embassy of the Netherlands in the United States.

On ‘Remembrance Day,’ Zelenskyy asks Dutch to mourn dead Ukrainians

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On a visit to the Netherlands on the country’s Remembrance Day—held annually on May 4 at 8 p.m. to commemorate soldiers and civilians who died in World War II, and in other wars and peacekeeping...
“A Small Light,” produced by ABC Signature and Keshet Studios for National Geographic, will stream on Disney+ and Hulu. Credit: Courtesy.

Miep Gies and the quest for a lasting Holocaust lesson

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There is something about the story of the eight Jews who spent more than two years hiding in the secret annex on Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam that is irresistible to readers, as well as...
Historical marker in Knoxville, Tenn., for Roddie Edmonds, Nov. 12, 2020. Credit: Jrryjude via Wikimedia Commons.

Congressional bills aim to give highest honor to ‘Righteous Gentile’ Roddie Edmonds

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Both houses of Congress reintroduced legislation this week to honor the late Roddie Edmonds, who put his life in danger to save Jews during World War II and the Holocaust, and is one of...

80 years ago, a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising play aimed to save European Jews

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Eighty years ago, Jews imprisoned in the sealed, overcrowded Warsaw Ghetto rebelled against their Nazi persecutors. Stubbornly clinging to a desire to die with honor, a small group of starving men and women, armed...
Israeli founding father and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion declares independence beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Holocaust is not why they fought, say 1948 veterans of Israel’s War of...

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Many see the creation of the modern-day State of Israel as part of a historical narrative, in which Israeli independence was a reaction to the Holocaust. “The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people—the...